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We are passionate about IT and we are passionate about sharing. The only possible way for us to express our needs is to collect, enrich and share our knowledge and our everyday experiences.This blog contains knowledge from the field and our goal is to provide helpful articles for everyone that comes across a similar problem or just wants to gain some practical knowledge about cloud technologies.

This blog series introduces a PowerShell module that automatically generated MarkDown documentation of your PowerShell Scripts and modules. It also gives an introduction into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) in PowerShell.

With every recent Windows 10 update, and they happen a lot, Windows unfortunately also resets the power settings of the network adapters. Since I like to start both my PC and notebook from a remote location or from within the same network, I wrote a little PowerShell function to enable Wake-on-LAN (WoL) again.

The Azure Active Directory has for some time been offering the ability to assign licenses to users such as EMS, Office 365 (Exchange, SharePoint, etc.), but can also provide groups with licenses. As soon as a user is added to a group, if there are still enough licenses available, the user will receive the corresponding license assigned to the group. This works with synchronized groups from the local Active Directory as well as with Azure AD Security and dynamic groups.

If you are like me - at least in terms of lazyness - you automate the stuff that you face more than once. Recently, I came accross the reoccuring task of creating Azure DevOps projects with several teams over and over again.

This blog series explains what static site generators are, why we have chosen a static site generator for our blog, how static sites can be implemented using only Microsoft Azure technologies and when you should consider using them vs. a CMS like WordPress.

The SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR structure stores security related attributes of an object. It determines, who can access the object and which additional permissions are assigned. Because sometimes you are confronted with the “raw” NtSecurityDescriptor e.g. in Active Directory related scenarios, I tried give an overview about all parts of it.

During an Exchange online migration, some preparations must take plce in advance so users can be migrated easily to the cloud.A typical error in the mailbox migration process occurs because of the mail domain (property: smtp/proxyaddresses) with the message “Target mailbox doesn’t have an smtp proxy”.